movie-making

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He's determined to get inside your head, one way or another, and over the course of a 46-year movie-making career, the Toronto native has veered from combusting-cranium splatter to less overt mind games whose psychological impact has been every bit as satisfying—and messy.

Kellow also points out: Kael's bias toward directors like Sam Peckinpah who made big, "messy" movies; her interest and concern about how audiences are either manipulated or genuinely entertained by movies; her disapproval of film appreciation courses as inculcating rigid attitudes towards movie-making.

The movie is more concerned with movie-making than with the stuff of Sterne's great book, but it's good for lots of laughs if you share its fondness for actors and for fatuous actors' banter, which I do.

Starting back in the pre-talkie years, and moving through Hollywood's golden age and the epic-crazy '60s, right up to contemporary Hollywood, the book is packed with insider tidbits about the wildly inventive — and improvisational — business of movie-making.